muck (something) up

muck (something) up
Verb. To ruin something, to mess up. E.g."You really mucked that up didn't you?"

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  • muck something up — muck (something) up to make a situation more confusing or difficult. Our leaders have demonstrated their great talent for mucking things up. Don t muck up our lives just because he was misbehaving. Related vocabulary: muddy the waters …   New idioms dictionary

  • muck something up — tv. to mess something up; to ruin something. □ Try not to muck it up this time. CD You seem to have mucked up this one, too …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • muck something up — informal spoil something. → muck …   English new terms dictionary

  • muck something up — (informal) MAKE A MESS OF, mess up, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck; informal botch, make a hash of, muff, fluff, foul up, louse up; Brit. informal make a pig s ear of, make a Horlicks of; N. Amer. informal goof up. → …   Useful english dictionary

  • muck (something) up — Verb. To ruin something, to mess up. E.g. You really mucked that up didn t you? …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • muck something out — ˌmuck ˈout | ˌmuck sthˈout derived to clean out the place where an animal lives • Part of her job was to muck out the stables. Main entry: ↑muckderived …   Useful english dictionary

  • muck something out — chiefly Brit. remove manure and other dirt from a stable etc. → muck …   English new terms dictionary

  • muck out — ˌmuck ˈout [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they muck out he/she/it mucks out present participle mucking out past tense …   Useful english dictionary

  • muck up — muck (something) up to make a situation more confusing or difficult. Our leaders have demonstrated their great talent for mucking things up. Don t muck up our lives just because he was misbehaving. Related vocabulary: muddy the waters …   New idioms dictionary

  • muck up — verb 1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin (Freq. 1) I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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